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Realism and the Progress of Science - Couverture rigide

Smith, Peter James

 
9780521239370: Realism and the Progress of Science
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521239370 ISBN 13 : 9780521239370
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will interest all those concerned with this basic question in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1981
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521239370
ISBN 13 
9780521239370
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
143
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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